Ed Tarnowski
@edtarnowski
Tech policy, @RSI | Founder and Editor, @ComputeOptimist | Senior Contributor, @JoinYoungVoices | Alum, @EdChoice | Rhode Island native | Views are my own 🇺🇸
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My mom’s stage IV cancer diagnosis made an underappreciated consideration in treatment soberingly apparent: location.
In @ComputeOptimist’s debut piece, I write about how an experimental breakthrough in AI-powered robotics could vastly expand access to specialized surgical care
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In the last 24 hours, I've seen several attempts at logging into accounts of mine, including X and others (someone likely obtained my passwords via a breach bc I've received 2FA codes)
Friends, remember to have 2FA turned on for everything. And use a proper authenticator.
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When Mount Saint Helens erupted 46 years ago today, nothing survived that was within 230 square miles of the explosion.
Except for photographer Richard Lasher who escaped on his dirt bike after taking this shot.
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Correct. And we all need to do a better job at communicating this to the average joe. We can only beat propaganda with better argument (and the truth)
Perhaps the biggest issue in data center opposition is that the average person thinks AI is just for social media slop.
They don’t realize a new industrial revolution just got kicked off.
Perhaps the biggest issue in data center opposition is that the average person thinks AI is just for social media slop.
They don’t realize a new industrial revolution just got kicked off.
80 days of the regime-imposed internet blackout in Iran.
Looks even better in person. More of this!
The Gothic Art Deco Futurism of the Brooklyn Tower works so so well
Space Camp registrations have doubled since Artemis II.
And the great thing is this isn't a choice we face! We get both!
Absolutely nails this. In my 20+ years of tech policy work I’ve seen many instances of advocates getting facts wrong (on all sides). But I’ve never seen such concentrated willful fearmongering as I have from opponents of supercomputers. I hope @lthlnkso does more on this issue.
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ask yourself why they do this, Americans
AI is happening whether you like it or not. China is not going to stop advancing because localities in America are banning data centers.
The future of this technology can be aligned with the western values of free expression or autocratic censorship and revisionism.
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OP-ED: Don’t let China sabotage our future with AI data center fearmongering
OP-ED: Don’t let China sabotage our future with AI data center fearmongering
Nobody's building datacenters in national forests.
SpaceX is now targeting Wednesday, May 20th at 6:30 PM ET for the first Starship V3 test flight, which is the same day as the Model S/X Signature delivery event in California.
The same way every single town in America got running water, electricity, telephone lines, air conditioning, cable, internet, cell phone service, WiFi, fiber, and satellite broadband.
